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Color-coded piece of South Africa

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MORNING before the match between Spain and Honduras in the Ellis Park Stadium, the middle of last month, we fill it with spare time visiting the Lion Park is popular during the World Cup in 2010. Place a variety of unique wildlife of Africa is becoming a favorite among tourists fill the time before kick off.
You know, zebra striped help incognito among the reeds of its main predators, lions.
- Emma

Not just ordinary tourists who visit an area of two square kilometers of savanna filled animals typical of Africa. The soccer star, like Ricardo Kaka, Dani Alves, Nani, and Italy coach Marcello Lippi, had a safari in the Lion Park. A number of players the United States and Slovenia also have spare time at this wildlife park. They take pictures with the kids that tall lion and giraffe.

Lion Park is a savanna area of two square kilometers of which managed to be closed to asylum wild animals typical of Africa. The area was partitioned-bulkhead with wire fence to separate wildlife predators, like lions, cheetahs and hyenas, with zebras, antelopes, springbok, blesbok, and black wildebeest, a type of large horned bull.

There are also other smaller animals, like ostriches and meerkats suricate (Suricata suricata), a type of mongoose. Meerkat habitat in the Kalahari Desert is a habit of standing upright on two feet. This lion park near the city center of Johannesburg and Pretoria and can be reached in less than an hour. If you want to depart from the hotel itself, simply ask the hotel taxi drove to that location.

Admission 115 rand (about USD 135 000) for adults and 80 rand (USD 94 000) for children aged 4-12 years. Cost was around the park including lions using safari vehicle equipped with protective bars on the windows. Tourists are also provided two minutes to pose with the kids lion.

Experience the most exciting in the Lion Park was driving around the savanna safari. Rear cabin wall is replaced with the bars so that passengers can see out freely.

Emma, our guide, lively down the dusty dirt road between waist-high grass savanna. Group of zebras in the distance seen adjacent to the group of springbok, a type of antelope that are endemic in the southern African continent.

"You know, zebra striped help incognito among the reeds of its main predators, lions. In the eyes of a lion, zebra looks gray, not black and white. Lorengnya help disguise themselves in the midst of weeds, "says Emma, who was not even 20 years.

In the distance seen a black wildebeest males with large curved horns. The bull turned out to be standing all day in that place. He only moves if there is a definite purpose, for example, toward the source of water.

King savanna

"Now we're going to where the king of the savanna," says Emma. Safari vehicles that had slid into the middle of a fenced savanna wire and there's a door guarded by rangers, forest guards alias. Near the door there are small cubicles of wood boards for protection if there is a lion that had escaped.

Lion including animals lazy and only active if going hunting. They like to sleep all day waiting for hunger to come. Approaching lions loll it's very exciting. Distance of our car is only about one meter from the group of Kalahari lions are darker fur.

Cameras friends a group of 11 Warriors Pamungkas Biskuat immediately raced to capture that moment. Atmosphere that feels like a savanna-savanna safari in their home, with brass reeds.

There is also a captive male white lion because thick neck fur. "The lion males have dense fur to protect the neck during a fight," says Emma.

White Lion is not a new species. They are the result of recessive genes meeting brought some lions. In the wild, white lions often fail when hunting because it is difficult to disguise themselves among the reeds. Currently there are about 50 white lions in South Africa and most are in the U.S. and German zoos.

Soweto

After enjoying a short safari in the Lion Park, is still much time left. We had visited the house of Nelson Mandela in Soweto. Travel to the house that once occupied the first black President of South Africa's wild past few settlements. The houses of zinc was inhabited by immigrants from neighboring countries such as Zimbabwe, which pitted his fortune in the golden city of Johannesburg.

"This is the beauty of South Africa. They came to South Africa which promises a better life. They do not have anything on their countries, "says Linda, who drove us into Soweto.

That is another color that South Africa is being held a party in the world terakbar ball. There is irony in the midst of a heady sparkling World Cup soccer enthusiast. Impression on the world cup of black settlements were represented by the mural-soccer-themed mural on the walls at the edge of the road.

Seeing the mural-mural with bright colors that give a little coolness in the settlement area of the poor.

Settlement differs from the location of Nelson Mandela's house in Vilakazi Street, Orlando West, Soweto. The streets in the complex was clean and filled with souvenir merchants. Local artists also make the place as the stage, as do the nine young men and women dressed in ethnic cover only certain parts, while the traditional dance, complete with a shrill chant verses that shrill.

In another corner of Vilakazi street, five percussion players serve African reggae rhythms that are always invited to rock. Music that happy feeling of anticipation as the melt into Soweto who terstigma by high crime rates.

Wasp percussion and dances that young children bring other colors of Africa that is rich in arts and culture. South Africa faces is to present a piece of the colorful life and hope for a nation that never dikungkung the apartheid system.


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